02gf74":81poxvzn said:
hello - a man with an LR lightweight - you take it offroading anywhere near you?
I used to go green laning, I haven't been for a while. Probably about 5 years! My brother was into it, but his son got a suzi jeep for his 15th birthday[I got in in search of space for my 15th] and they started going to pay and play places from then.
I didn't touch the rock lobster for a few months!
Last week I did the remaining things, this was written in September.
I put the cables on. I hadn't put them on as I needed to make little top hat cable ends to to go in the hose clips on the top tube. Worked nicely and the cables sit square unlike the cables with nylon ends in the proper cables stops, apart from the cable ends I made as I ran out of bought ones.
I had scored a stem from Ebay, locally and very cheap, but very short as well[70mm], going to get a 100mm to try it. I should have left the cables long enough to try long stem and risers.
I welded the ends of the cables, I had been meaning to try welding them and never got round to it, very easy and hopefully no fraying; I put heat shrink tubing on as I usually do.
I didn't want to chop the steerer down, so I made some longish spacers, looks crap but if I flog the forks it's best.
The XT rear rear mech I bought needed jockeys, so I bought an XTR mech;-)
I changed the bottom swing xt front mech for a top swing, the cable angle from the stop was terrible with a bottom swing mech. All the front mechs I bought for it, I have bought three now, were 34.9mm, so needed shimming. I made a concentric shim and when I came to set the mech up found it wouldn't go back far enough, a shim with 1.5mm of eccentricity cured that.
I had bought XT cranks which never turned up, but the bloke gave me my dosh back so all not lost, I always feel guilty when I ask for dosh back? I bought some new LX cranks from crc, only to then win another set of XT cranks the same day, bid on them late one night and forgot all about them. The LX cranks were bolted on before I got the XT cranks so they are staying on.
I had bought a new 9speed cassette and chain and some more shifters, I had M740s then I decided I might as well go 9 speed so I got some more shifters, can you see the pattern of buying a few things[I will have enough left over bit's to build a few more;-)].